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[Mitchell Holman]

[Lynn in StLou[_2_]]

Mitchell Holman wrote:

Kind of reminds me of the YC-14
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[Mitchell Holman]

Lynn in StLou > wrote in news:VVhyj.10104$5K1.3347
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> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>
> Kind of reminds me of the YC-14


It's in the last installment of this series.......

[J.F.]

This is a YC-14. They were first flown in August of 1976. It was a very
short lived project.
However, by the time the YC-14 was ready for production, military priorities
had changed. The Air Force decided it needed a larger transport that would
fly to standard, conventional airfields rather than into battle zones.

In December of 1979, the Air Force formally cancelled the program for both
the YC-14 and the YC-15. As a result, the C-X (Cargo Transport
Aircraft-Experimental), or the C-17 was the next project on the table that
was led to be successful.

J.F.

> Mitchell Holman wrote:
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> Kind of reminds me of the YC-14
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> Lynn in StLou
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